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Markets · Nov 4, 2026 · 3 min read
First published at 07:20 GMT; updated with the session's closing edition at 10:27 GMT. Mainland Chinese stocks led a split Asian session on Wednesday, with Shenzhen's Component index closing 4.22% higher while Tokyo's Nikkei 225…
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Markets · Nov 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Taipei and Seoul dived 3.59% on Tuesday as the technology selloff reached Asia's chip heavyweights, while India rose a fourth day and…
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Markets · Nov 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Brent slid 4.43% by 10:08 GMT amid reports of US-Iranian diplomatic contacts, while Seoul's Kospi rebounded 2.24% from the technology selloff that…
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Macro · Oct 30, 2026 · 6 min read
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 1.25% on 30 October over one dissent for a rise, and will more…
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Macro · Oct 30, 2026 · 6 min read
Japan's industrial production rose 2.2% in September from August, recovering most of the previous month's fall, and manufacturers expect output to climb…
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Markets · Oct 30, 2026 · 3 min read
Seoul's Kospi fell 3.48% and Tokyo snapped a three-session rise after Amazon and Intel earnings added to AI spending worries, on the…
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Markets · Oct 29, 2026 · 3 min read
Tokyo's Nikkei 225 rose 1.10% for a third straight day before Friday's Bank of Japan decision, while a Samsung earnings miss cooled…
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Corporate News · Oct 29, 2026 · 8 min read
Five large Japanese companies reported results on 29 October, led by Takeda Pharmaceutical, whose first-half operating profit jumped 60.4% to JPY 406.7…
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Markets · Oct 28, 2026 · 3 min read
A record SK hynix quarter sent Seoul's Kospi up 6.63% to 6,012.44 on Wednesday, with chip markets higher across Asia hours before…
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Markets · Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min read
Seoul led Asia on Tuesday, with the Kospi up 3.09 percent at 5,638.34 after the Bank of Korea's advance estimate put third-quarter…
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Markets · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 min read
Asia split on Monday, with five of the nine indices that traded closing higher. Seoul's Kospi led the fallers, down 1.46 percent…
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Markets · Oct 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Shenzhen's component index rose 2.79 percent on Friday to snap three straight declines, leading a China rebound a day after all ten…
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Macro · Oct 23, 2026 · 7 min read
Japan's consumer prices excluding fresh food rose 2.1 percent in September from a year earlier, up from 1.7 percent in August, the…
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Markets · Oct 22, 2026 · 5 min read
Seoul's Kospi fell 3.52 percent on Thursday as chip shares gave back Wednesday's rebound, the deepest decline on a day when all…
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Markets · Oct 21, 2026 · 4 min read
South Korea's Kospi rebounded 3.29 percent on Wednesday as chip shares rallied, reversing most of Tuesday's slide in a single session. Six…
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Macro · Oct 21, 2026 · 6 min read
Japan's exports rose 16.7 percent in September from a year earlier to 10.97 trillion yen, equivalent to 69.4 billion dollars. The Ministry…
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Markets · Oct 20, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea led Asia lower on Tuesday as the artificial-intelligence trade turned again. The Kospi dropped 3.73 percent to 5,552.74, more than…
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Markets · Oct 19, 2026 · 5 min read
South Korea's Kospi closed 1.76 percent higher at 5,768.01 in a second straight gain, the strongest move of Monday's Asian session. China's…
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Markets · Oct 16, 2026 · 5 min read
Asia snapped its rout on Friday: nine of the ten markets rose, with Seoul's Kospi rebounding 2.05 percent from Thursday's circuit-breaker plunge…
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Markets · Oct 15, 2026 · 5 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Thursday as Wednesday's hot US inflation print reached the region's chipmakers: Seoul's Kospi dived 7.57…
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Markets · Oct 14, 2026 · 6 min read
Nine of ten Asian indices fell on Wednesday ahead of a US inflation report due in the evening, and Taiwan's Taiex rose…
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Markets · Oct 13, 2026 · 5 min read
Seoul's Kospi sank 5.46 percent on Tuesday, its worst day since mid-August, as reported progress by China's memory chipmaker CXMT set off…
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Macro · Oct 13, 2026 · 7 min read
Japan's producer price index rose 6.8 percent in September from a year earlier, slowing from 7.6 percent in August, according to preliminary…
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Markets · Oct 12, 2026 · 5 min read
Five of the eight Asian indices open on Monday closed lower, led by Seoul, where the Kospi plunged 3.65 percent in a…
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Energy & Commodities · Oct 12, 2026 · 7 min read
Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Akazawa used the 17th International Energy Forum (IEF) ministerial meeting on 11 October to promote POWERR…
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Macro · Oct 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Spending by Japanese households of two or more people fell 3.1 percent in real terms in August from a year earlier to…
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Markets · Oct 9, 2026 · 5 min read
Six of the eight Asian indices that traded on our panel closed higher on Friday, with Seoul and Taipei shut for public…
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Markets · Oct 8, 2026 · 4 min read
All ten Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Thursday, the first session with Shanghai and Shenzhen back from the National…
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Macro · Oct 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's current account surplus widened to 4,062.0 billion yen in August, equivalent to 25.6 billion dollars, from 3,628.1 billion yen a year…
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Macro · Oct 7, 2026 · 2 min read
Japan's reserve assets fell 29,128 million dollars to 1,178,396 million at the end of September, the Ministry of Finance said on 7…
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Markets · Oct 7, 2026 · 4 min read
All eight Asian indices on our panel closed lower on Wednesday, led by Seoul, where the Kospi fell 1.98 percent to 6,803.90…
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Markets · Oct 6, 2026 · 5 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 1.05 percent to 70,683.98 on Tuesday, its first close above the 70,000 line since 1 July, and every…
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Markets · Oct 5, 2026 · 5 min read
Every board open on our Monday set closed higher, with Taipei's weighted index jumping 2.55 percent to 49,712.04 and the Nikkei 225…
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Macro · Oct 3, 2026 · 3 min read
Consumer prices in Tokyo's 23 wards rose 2.7 percent from a year earlier in September, up from 1.9 percent in August, according…
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Markets · Oct 2, 2026 · 6 min read
Hong Kong set the tone for a thinned out Friday board. The Hang Seng returned from Thursday's holiday and fell 2.60 percent…
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Macro · Oct 2, 2026 · 3 min read
Japan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose 0.1 point to 2.5 percent in August, the Statistics Bureau said on 2 October, while the…
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Markets · Oct 1, 2026 · 6 min read
The Nikkei 225 rose 3.30 percent, or 2,203.00 points, to 68,956.72 on Thursday, the board's strongest row by a wide margin, with…
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First published at 07:20 GMT; updated with the session’s closing edition at 10:27 GMT. Mainland Chinese stocks led a split Asian session on Wednesday, with Shenzhen’s Component index closing 4.22% higher while Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 fell 1.42% on its return from a holiday. Five of the ten markets in this wrap rose and five fell,…
Taipei and Seoul dived 3.59% on Tuesday as the technology selloff reached Asia’s chip heavyweights, while India rose a fourth day and Australia’s central bank raised rates again. In The Edge’s reading, the session imported both of Monday’s American stories at once: Wall Street’s technology unwind, which Seoul and Taipei absorbed hardest, and the inflation,…
Brent slid 4.43% by 10:08 GMT amid reports of US-Iranian diplomatic contacts, while Seoul’s Kospi rebounded 2.24% from the technology selloff that defined its October. In The Edge’s reading the session pointed one way for Asia’s importers even as the markets split, five higher and five lower: crude gave up part of its war premium,…
The Bank of Japan kept its policy rate at 1.25% on 30 October over one dissent for a rise, and will more than double its ETF sales from January. For Japanese borrowers and savers the decision keeps short-term rates where September’s quarter-point increase put them. The Bank repeated that it will continue to raise the…
Japan’s industrial production rose 2.2% in September from August, recovering most of the previous month’s fall, and manufacturers expect output to climb again in October. The month brings factory output back within 0.5% of its June high, and the jobless rate fell to 2.4% in the same month. In The Edge’s reading, September splits the…
Seoul’s Kospi fell 3.48% and Tokyo snapped a three-session rise after Amazon and Intel earnings added to AI spending worries, on the day the Bank of Japan held at 1.25%. In The Edge’s reading, the session divided on exposure to AI capital spending rather than on the policy decision: Seoul, Taipei, Shenzhen and Tokyo fell…
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.10% for a third straight day before Friday’s Bank of Japan decision, while a Samsung earnings miss cooled the chip rally across Asia. A day after SK hynix answered the AI question for the chipmakers, Samsung’s third quarter put the other half back on the table: in The Edge’s reading, the…
Five large Japanese companies reported results on 29 October, led by Takeda Pharmaceutical, whose first-half operating profit jumped 60.4% to JPY 406.7 billion ($2.58 billion) and which raised its outlook on a weaker yen. Komatsu lifted its full-year operating income forecast; Denso’s six-month operating profit fell 19.5%, and it announced a share buyback. Fujitsu’s first-half…
A record SK hynix quarter sent Seoul’s Kospi up 6.63% to 6,012.44 on Wednesday, with chip markets higher across Asia hours before the Federal Reserve’s decision. The question over the AI trade since mid-October has been whether chip demand converts into profits and payouts; in The Edge’s reading, SK hynix answered it for the chipmakers,…
Seoul led Asia on Tuesday, with the Kospi up 3.09 percent at 5,638.34 after the Bank of Korea’s advance estimate put third-quarter growth ahead of forecasts. Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 rose 1.73 percent and snapped three declines, while Shanghai and Shenzhen both fell. Taipei returned from its two-session closure with a 0.12 percent gain. Brent crude…